Nov 7, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
November 2023 Newsletter – All About Cyber Insurance The cyber insurance market is growing globally particularly in the USA, Germany, and India. But what is cyber insurance? Cyber insurance is a policy with an insurance carrier to mitigate a businesses’...
Sep 1, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
September 2023 Newsletter – Historical Scanning and Archive In 1971, Michael S. Hart launched Project Gutenberg and digitized the U.S. Declaration of Independence, becoming the first eBook in the world. Today most printed books come out with a digital...
Aug 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
August 2023 Newsletter – PDF/A: The Standard For Long-Term Archiving PDF/A – the standard for long-term archiving. The advantages of converting your records to the PDF/A format On September 28, 2005 the International Standards Organization (ISO) formulated a new...
Jul 10, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
July 2023 Newsletter – Lets Talk Legal Retention Let’s talk about legal records retention. But what exactly is records retention? Records retention pertains to the practice and organization of safekeeping important records for a set amount of time. The length of...
May 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
May 2023 Newsletter – A Paperless Office.. How to go Paperless Going paperless. Going green. These were always statements that went together. Because we were going paperless we were going green. Because we were going green we were going paperless. But is going...
Apr 7, 2023 | Blog, Newsletters
April 2023 Newsletter – NARA and What It Means For You The National Archives and Records Administration, best known as NARA; is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government within the executive branch. Its primary task is to protect, preserve, and keep...
Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
Information Capture: What to Capture Vs. What NOT to Capture Many organizations have an obligation to maintain the information they create and receive as part of regular business activities. This is done to ensure that the information capture is secured and maintained...
May 14, 2021 | Blog
Why Document Prep Time is So Consuming Document prep prior to scanning is the foundation to an expedited scanning process. Each file is “like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get.” During a document scanning project, I noticed the...
Mar 11, 2021 | Blog
Data Privacy and what you need to know Data privacy, or information privacy; is a branch of data security concerned with the proper handling of data. This is in regards to consent, notice and regulatory obligations. More specifically, practical data privacy concerns...
Jan 11, 2021 | Blog
Small Ways to Make a Big Difference Scanning Whenever we focus projects scanning engineering drawings, there have been subtle reminders about some techniques I learned over 20 years ago. Whether you are a service bureau or doing a project in-house, I found this one...
Dec 10, 2020 | Blog
Still storing medical records on paper? In 2011, the U.S. government introduced the Meaningful Use program relating to the digitizing of medical records. This was an incentive based program to get your historical medical records digital and into an Electronic Health...
Nov 18, 2020 | Blog, Webinars
Legal industry and managing data The legal industry manages massive amounts of data, documents, and media files. Managing Case Files Effectively In law firms both small and large case files can easily build up to storage rooms full of paper. Compliance laws regarding...
Oct 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
October 2020 Newsletter – Metadata Having accurate metadata is a critical component to making your data findable. So often, we find ourselves swimming in paper, not by choice. It’s not for any other reason than that’s the way we have always done it....
Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
September 2020 Newsletter – Information Governance Information Governance – Risks and Opportunities PART III Since Information Governance (IG) has been established as an asset in our previous blog, let’s review some of the principals of IG. First, unmanaged...
Jul 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
July 2020 Newsletter – Information Governance Information Governance: Risks and Opportunities – PART II Make sure to check out Part I here. Non compliance issues data losses and email are also crucial aspects of Information Governance. Non-compliance can create...
Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
June 2020 Newsletter – Information Governance Risk and Opportunities Lets talk information governance risk and opportunities. In the year 2020, we live in two worlds. We work from home and we have our personal records. Keeping this information separate and...
Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
April 2020 Newsletter – Working from Home Effectively Many of us find ourselves working from home – often rather suddenly and unexpectedly. Organizations of all sizes are now in the position of figuring out how to ensure that business continues while staff stay...
Mar 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
March 2020 Newsletter – Identity Theft Identity Theft Is the Fastest Growing Crime of the 21st Century So much of our personal information is online, like social media sites and financial institutions. We need to be on guard 24/7 to protect and manage our...
Feb 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
February 2020 Newsletter – GDPR Introduction.. Addressing Compliance Enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) began in May of 2018. It was with the intention to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European...
Jan 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletters
January 2020 Newsletter – Windows 7 Support Expires The End of an Era: Windows 7 Support Expires It’s been ten years since the first release of Microsoft’s Windows 7. Now as the decade comes to a close, so does support for this popular operating system. For...
